upgrade from Yonah to Merom question

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EricRC · #1 Post by **EricRC** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:26 am

Anyone here has successfully upgraded a Yonah on a T60 to a Merom? Does the current version of the BIOS 2.09 from lenovo support the Merom? or only the 2.01 version surports it? I'm planning to replace my T2300 with a T7200, and i'm using the 2.09 version BIOS, is it possible for me to do the upgrade?? Thanks

edwin108 · #2 Post by **edwin108** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:29 pm

Hello,

I had upgraded the T2400 Yonah procesor in my T60 to a T7600 Merom processor. You need to have a revision 3 motherboard or later, you can find the revision number through CPUz (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php). The BIOS version 2.09 works fine with it.

EricRC · #3 Post by **EricRC** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:59 pm

edwin108 wrote:Hello,

I had upgraded the T2400 Yonah procesor in my T60 to a T7600 Merom processor. You need to have a revision 3 motherboard or later, you can find the revision number through CPUz (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php). The BIOS version 2.09 works fine with it.

thanks for your info,by the way my chipset on my motherboard is 945PM, that should be no problem, right?

edwin108 · #4 Post by **edwin108** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:43 pm

Yes, the Intel 945 chipset series supports Core Duo (Yonah) and Core 2 Duo (Merom) processors

Rizo · #5 Post by **Rizo** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:13 am

I have a Rev. 3 motherboard
With the proper BIOS update would I be able to go to T7200 or T7600? or does the R60 restrict this in any way?

edwin108 · #6 Post by **edwin108** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:21 pm

you shouldn't have any problems if you have the latest bios, a rev3 mothermoard and a core duo processor already installed

Tony Chan · #7 Post by **Tony Chan** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:55 pm

What's the main reason for you guys to swap cpu? Is it 64bit vs 32bit? Because I find that the small margin of performance gain on a new c2d does not justify for $300 or more.

perry_78 · #8 Post by **perry_78** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:28 am

Some of us just want say a faster processor if our T60 came with a slower one

I would consider swapping it in, if it didn't voic the warranty (mine is valid until late 2009, and the CPU runs at 1ghz for most of the time anyway), as I do happen to have 'extra' CPUs here.

edwin108 · #9 Post by **edwin108** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:23 am

i did it for the 64-bit vista support and to have the fastest processor

Rizo · #10 Post by **Rizo** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:40 pm

I was researching on virtualization and thought my T2300 didn't do it. Turns out T2300 is fine its just the fact that I had an R60 instead of a T60. They disable the technology in BIOS.

Now I am not so hot on upgrading to 64 bit C2D since I am a linux user and that would mean another install for little performance increase.

dsalyers · #11 Post by **dsalyers** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:55 pm

Tony Chan wrote:What's the main reason for you guys to swap cpu? Is it 64bit vs 32bit? Because I find that the small margin of performance gain on a new c2d does not justify for $300 or more.

I just ordered mine with a Core2Duo. But, I wanted it because I perform research where having the 64bit registers is advantagous. Not that I can't do it with 32bit, just 64bits is nice. I run Fedora Core 6

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